Larry Bitensky

Larry Bitensky (born 1966 in New York, New York) is an American composer who has written for a variety of genres, including piano, chamber ensembles, orchestra, and wind ensemble.

Biography

Bitensky earned a DMA in composition at Cornell University and an MM in composition at Ithaca College. His primary composition teachers include Steven Stucky, Dana Wilson, Roberto Sierra, and Karel Husa. He also studied piano with Stephen Drury at the New England Conservatory of Music where he earned a B.M. in piano performance.

Bitensky's music has been described as "extraordinary sensitive and beautiful" and "speaking directly from the heart" and his works have been performed throughout North America and Europe. Some of his works have been also been performed by the United States Marine Band.

He is currently the Charles T. Hazelrigg Associate Professor of Music at Centre College in Danville, KY, where he teaches music theory, composition, aural skills, and world music.^[1]

Works

Chamber Works

• What Winter Dreamt
• From those Beginning Notes of Yearning
• Fanfare
• The Other Side
• Awake, You Sleepers!
• One for Two
• Then the Letting Go

Wind Ensemble Works

• We Tread and Go
• The Closing of the Gates
• Hadra
• Awake, You Sleepers!
• One for All
• To Touch the Sky

Piano

• From the Corner Room
• The Alchemy of Solitude
• Scent of the World We Gave Up
• Rapture
• Vocalise
• Shouts and Murmurs, Books 1 & 2
• One for Two

Orchestra

• Awake, you Sleepers!
• Einstein's Dreams
• LIGHTRIDE
• To Touch the Sky

Vocal

• Mishb'rey Yam
• Vayashav Hamal'ach
• The Drift of Things
• Doctor Knickerbocker and Other Stories^[2]

References

External links

• larrybitensky.com
• centre.edu